Fuhu built its business selling parents on its Nabi tablets, headphones and GoPro-like action cameras geared to kids. Now, the company has cooked up a new approach to get its products into children’s hands: Why buy when you can subscribe? Read More »

If a photo is worth a thousand words, then on the Internet, an animated GIF is worth millions.

The looping mini-movies have become one of the best ways to express emotions in the digital realm. Excited? Just send dancing Elaine from “Seinfeld.” Surprised? Little Macaulay Culkin smacking aftershave on his face will do.

But if you want to make a GIF of your own, here are the easiest ways. Read More »

Google is upping the ante against Apple with unlimited storage and some fun photo tricks. At the Google I/O developers conference, the company released its Photos app for iOS, Android and the Web. Read More »

In Windows 10, Microsoft is giving everyone the middle finger—or at least, the option to use one.

The new operating system, which will arrive on PCs this later summer and on phones before the end of the year, will introduce a middle-finger emoji, Microsoft’s VP of communications, Frank X. Shaw, confirmed to the Wall Street Journal. That puts Microsoft ahead of its emoji-embracing peers Apple and Microsoft with the obscene gesture. Read More »

On Tuesday the company announced the $500 Surface 3, the thinnest and lightest version of its tablet, meant to be a more appealing option than its $800 Surface Pro 3 for students and families. Unlike the old Surface RT and Surface 2 tablets, this non-Pro runs full Windows 8.1—and can be upgraded to Windows 10 when that hits later this year. Read More »

For nearly 15 years, Microsoft has been trying to explain why we should jab an awkward pointing device at our tablet’s screen, instead of just tapping it with a finger. But after all this time, the reason is clearer than ever. As I wrote in my column this week, the stylus is reaching a level of technical maturity where it may finally be capable of the unthinkable: replacing the pen. Read More »